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The pop songs in this collection of well-known 50's, 60's and 70's hits have been carefully adapted and arranged to make them suitable for playing on a classical or acoustic guitar. The pieces have be...

Would you like to play well-known great music, although you have not yet been playing very long? Then this book has your name on it. The pieces, a mixture of classical, traditional and pop hits, are e...

Ronan Keating's ballad version of this number - originally a country song dating back to 1988 - made the song into a world-wide favourite and allowed Keating to step up from boy-band heartthrob to ser...

Billie Jean is the most successful single that Michael Jackson ever released and is considered by many to be one of the best pop songs ever written. In this arrangement, Louis Kihara has transformed t...

This bittersweet song from 1967 is a real classic, partly due to the rendition by two queens of soul, Dionne Warwick and later also Aretha Franklin. The theme was very topical at the time: A woman is...

For Une Belle Histoire, Roland Kernen took his inspiration from the seventies French singer and composer Michel Fugain and his troop of singers and dancers known as 'Le Big Bazar'. The cheerful melodi...

You Raise Me Up is a concert band arrangement of one of the most popular ballads of all time by Takashi Hoshide. Composed by Rolf Løvland, who, inspired by traditional Irish melodies, asked Irish auth...

The Loco-motion was the hippest dance routine to hit the clubs in the 1960s. In contrast to many songwriters who write songs after a trend has taken off , singer/songwriter partners and couple Gerry G...

Somebody to Love, from rock legends Queen, is one of the most popular rock ballads of all time. Taking its inspiration from gospel choirs, the band's vocal lines were multiplied many times over to cre...

As with previous releases from Thriller, the seventh and last single provided yet another top ten hit in many countries in 1984. With the most ambitious and costliest video to date, Jackson set a new...

Dieses Lied, das erstmals 1979 von der Gruppe The Village People veröffentlicht wurde, begann 1993 in der Dance-Version der Pet Shop Boys seinen weltweiten Siegeszug durch die Discotheken, aber auch d...

The Police was one of the most prominent bands during the 80's, dominating the charts with numerous hits. The Norwegian Richard Johnsen has been around the block as an arranger in the pop and jazz ban...

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da is a song by The Beatles from their 1968 album The Beatles (often called the 'White Album'). Although credited to Lennon McCartney, the song was written solely by Paul McCartney. Th...

Neil Diamond wrote his Crunchy Granola Suite when he moved to Los Angeles in the 1970s and got to know macrobiotic granola as part of a health-conscious lifestyle. The lyrics of this cheerful song eve...

The Ketchup Song was a big 2002 summer hit for the Munoz sisters. The band is made up of three sisters, Lol, Lucia and Pilar who are the daughters of a famous Spanish flamenco musician called Tomate (...

Hey Jude hiess laut Paul McCartney ursprünglich Hey Jules und war dem Julian, dem Sohn von John Lennon gewidmet. Geschrieben als ein kleines Lied zum Trost des Jungen, wurde es rasch ein weltweiter Er...

At the end of the 1960s the group Creedence Clearwater Revival wrote many successful numbers, many of which were covered by various artists. Proud Mary - one of their best known songs was covered many...

There have been many arrangements of Beatles' songs for various kinds of ensembles, so rather than just producing a further medley of Beatles' hits, Peter Kleine Schaars has added a new twist to them...

In his capacity as staff arranger of the Royal Marine Band of the Dutch Navy this arrangement is one of the best loved by Peter Kleine Schaars' band. Elvis in Concert features the twelve greatest his...

In the 1970s Elvis Presley gave many concerts with an orchestra that included a large wind and brass section. These concerts were characterised by enthusiasm and a fast tempo. Suspicious Minds was an...

Joe Cocker is considered the most successful white blues singer; he is especially well-known for his rough, striking voice. In 1968, With a Little Help from My Friends became his first number one hit...

The Swedish group ABBA had their decisive international breakthrough when the foursome won the Eurovision Song Contest on the 6th of April, 1974 with Waterloo. This cheerful song, with its driving bea...

This attractive and unforgettable love song was a hit in the 60's, and again in 2001, for Andy Williams. Lorenzo Bocci has created an inspired arrangement for concert band.

Bryan Adams is one of the most successful rock singers of modern times with his raspy voice and his ability to sing rock songs as skilfully as expressive ballads contributed to his fame. Wolfgang Wöss...

Phil Collins first burst onto the music scene in 1970 when he joined the rock band Genesis, not as their singer but as their drummer. In 1975 following the departure of singer Peter Gabriel, Phil Coll...